We Can't Stop Staring At These Hyperrealistic Depictions Of Innards And Guts

July 18, 2014 1:28 PM

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We're not sure exactly what it is that we're looking at here, but we can't look away. Pristine plastic baggies pumped with innards and guts dangle mysteriously from a white string against a crisp white backdrop. Is this a chef formulating his next meal? A scientist, potentially a mad one, prepping an experiment? Is this a Patrick Bateman situation we're dealing with? Whatever it is, we can't take our eyes off it, for better or worse.

We have Salvador, Brazil-based artist Fábio Magalhães to thank for these simultaneously transfixing and nausea-inducing images. His hyperrealist series, "Intimate Portraits," depicts bodies as we've never seen them before -- hopefully -- turned inside out, mashed up, gushing juices. To create each h...